DanN.36988 (Customer) asked a question.
Is there a way to bulk update user profiles in okta, maybe with csv?
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You may definitely leverage our CSV import method to update bulk users profile by supplying the values in the CSV. For more details please review our documentation below:
https://help.okta.com/en/prod/Content/Topics/Directory/Directory_People.htm#Importing
Expand the Import and assign people from a CSV File section from the above article.
You can additionally leverage our Okta API in order to update user profiles. This will require some coding experience in order to achieve the desired outcome.
https://developer.okta.com/docs/api/resources/users#update-user
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Are you able to pull all the data down in a CVS and then updated the fields as needed?
Wanted to bump Brians question. Without a CSV export in the same format as the import template it makes bulk updates very error prone.
Here is another thread where customers discuss using the API to pull the report. As the other posters mentioned its kind of crazy that there is no way to do this in the GUI. I still need to test if the API export format is the same as the import format, if its not thats really unfortunate because writing a transformation script just adds more chance for errors. https://support.okta.com/help/s/question/0D50Z00008G7VQR/how-can-i-export-list-of-all-users-in-okta
More here, looks like the official answer is to use the pw health report or someone else's chrome extension called rockstar https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/Export-Active-OKTA-Users-list
The API does not support a text/csv content type so would have to transform from json into the upload template format